H1N1 shadow lingers as most schools reopen to poor attendance

Tuesday 25 August '09

Even as schools in the city, except some affiliated to the ICSE board, reopened on Monday after a two-week break owing to the swine flu pandemic, fear is still apparent and it reflected in the poor attendance in some schools.

H1N1 shadow on Ganesh festival

Sunday 23 August '09

Swine flu has cast a shadow on the 116-year-old Ganesh Festival in the city, affecting the economics of the festival.

Lessons from past: city celebrated Ganesh festival despite epidemics

Thursday 20 August '09

A good 91 years ago, Pune had faced a situation similar to the one it is facing today — an epidemic outbreak. A peep into history also reveals that an epidemic outbreak ahead of the Ganesh festival is nothing new to the city.

Symbi to foray into FTII terrain, to get into entertainment education

Wednesday 19 August '09

Symbiosis International University is planning to give the Film and Television Institute of India a run for its money.

CBSE, ICSE, IB schools: stricter norms with compulsory Marathi till Class VIII

Saturday 15 August '09

Schools affiliated to CBSE, ICSE, IB, IGCSE and CIE boards in the state will now have to down their shutters if they don’t abide by the regulations of fee regulatory committee to be set up in the state...

City academics all for Mexican model

Friday 14 August '09

Even as corporators of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) are deliberating on implementation of the Mexican model in the city to tackle the H1N1 pandemic, the idea has met with a positive response in academic circles.

UoP may cancel first-term exams

Thursday 13 August '09

In the wake of the college teachers’ strike that has continued for a month and now the one-week closure of colleges owing to the swine flu scare in the city...

Attendance shortage not an issue this year

Thursday 13 August '09

State education minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil said shortage of attendance will not be an issue for those students who cannot attend school owing to swine flu.

Back from the clutches of H1N1 virus

Wednesday 12 August '09

From my child’s experience, I can say that swine flu is definitely curable.

Coming election season, candidates can go hi-tech

Tuesday 11 August '09

Ahead of assembly elections in the state, city-based Chanakya Consultancy Services has come up with a unique one-stop solution package for candidates that include services from surveys to media analysis.

Parties step into H1N1 ring, many see it as pre-poll stunt

Monday 10 August '09

With swine flu spreading in the city, political parties, including the Congress, NCP, BJP, Shiv Sena and MNS have put up hoardings carrying information on the H1N1 virus and ways to prevent its spread.

Flu scare grips city, Puneites stay put at home

Sunday 9 August '09

With one death and over 100 positive cases so far, the swine flu scare seems to have gripped the city.

Now, colleges take caution route

Saturday 8 August '09

With a student of MIT School of Management testing positive for swine flu on Thursday...

Of 112 cases in Pune, 70 detected in schools

Thursday 6 August '09

With over 70 of the 112 swine flu cases reported till Tuesday being detected in schools, almost every student with a hint of a cough or sore throat...

At funeral, relatives learnt of swine flu death...

Wednesday 5 August '09

Authorities of St Anne’s High School on Tuesday said they came to know that Reeda Shaikh had swine flu only after her death.

Rakhis to cheer the visually-impaired

Saturday 1 August '09

Rakshabandhan this time will be a unique one for visually-impaired in Pune as the girls with good eyesight will be tying rakhis to the visually-impaired boys at a programme called Runanubandha to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Braille on August 1.

Varsity exam dept comes under scanner as engg results overshoot deadline

Wednesday 29 July '09

The examination department of the University of Pune is again under the scanner.

After schools, creches shut down

Tuesday 28 July '09

After schools, it is now the turn of crèches in the city to close for a week owing to the swine flu threat.

He gave hope to many, but failed to get full benefit

Saturday 25 July '09

Abhijit Shripad Joshi, the Class XII student whose RTI application was instrumental in bringing the SSC/HSC answersheets under the purview of the RTI Act...

10 new colleges for Pune

Saturday 18 July '09

Ahead of the Assembly elections in the state, Higher and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Tope has decided to please one and all.

Thanks to high fees, bifocal seats remain vacant

Thursday 16 July '09

The exorbitant fees in the range of Rs 25,000 to 30,000 per annum for bifocal courses has had its impact on the admissions to Class 11 courses.

A legend remembered

Tuesday 14 July '09

A great actor, a gem of a person and a man who always kept his word – that, in a nutshell, was Nilu Phule.

7 yrs in last decade: negative trend in rainfall nothing new

Sunday 12 July '09

With the monsoon playing truant this year, the country is not expecting good rains this season.

‘Admission ads should be published in Marathi also’

Saturday 11 July '09

The directorate of higher education has sent a notice to all educational institutes directing that all the advertisements related to admission procedure should be published in Marathi too.

Long wait likely for deemed varsity proposals

Saturday 11 July '09

Most of the proposals for deemed-to-be-university status from Maharashtra have been on hold for a long time now and are not expected to get cleared soon following the decision of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development to review the deemed universities in the country.